From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 12 12:21:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A2837B416; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtm6u.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.216.222] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EFsk-0002Fx-00; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:21:35 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBC1USG04267; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:30:28 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Peter Wemm Cc: Nik Clayton , Garance A Drosihn , Greg Lehey , Warner Losh , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011211234433.B697@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:16:10PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:16:10PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:23:15PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > In the land of weird suggestions, just how weird would it be to > > > suggest that we create some way for 'cat' versions of man pages > > > to land somewhere else? > > >=20 > > > Maybe /var/man/usr/share/cat* > > > for ones from /usr/share/man/man* > > > etc? > > > > Sounds like a good idea. > > I for one would like it a lot. Nothing in man(1) actually breaks if you just make /usr read-only. You won't get cached pages, but in this day of overpowered CPUs, who cares? OTOH, in these days of super-cheap HHD, who needs markup pages except for the developers? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message